Relevant, Comments are relevant to current discussion and linked to comments of others

Supported, Comments clarify important aspects of earlier ideas and lead to clearer statement of relevant concepts and issues

Research Assignment 40%

Research topic assigned to the course participant.The participant is expected to submit the written report and the powerpoint presentation in the prescribed formats.Rating criteria are: Quality Analysis, Exhibits, Recommendations, and Overall presentation.

Quality analysis, Major issues are addressed, Relevant tools are used properly, Assumptions for analysis are stated clearly, Causes of the problems are identified in the analysis

Exhibits, Analyses in the exhibits are done correctly, Exhibits support and clarify key points, 3 to 7 exhibits

Recommendations, Criteria for selecting alternative recommendations are given, Criteria are appropriate, Plan of action is logical linked to the analysis, Plan of action is specific, complete and practical, Recommendations are likely to achieve intended results

Presentations, Report is not long, 2000 words max, Presentation is professionally done, Report is consistent and effectively sells its recommendations

Course works 30%

Course coverage

Corporation Law

Corporation Code of the Philippines

Partnerships

Articles 1767 to 1867 of the Civil Code of the Philippines

Negotiable Instruments

Act 2031

Contracts

Obligations & Contracts, Concepts, Definition, Requisites, juridical tie, passive subject or the creditor or obligee, active subject or the debtor or the obligor, fact, prestation or service which
constitutes the object of the
obligation, Sources, law, contracts, quasi-contracts, delicts, quasi-delicts, Rights & Obligations, Obligation to give, Rights of Creditor, Obligations of Debtor, Determinate thing, Demand for specific performance, Indeterminate thing, ask for performance of the
obligation at the expense of the
obligor, breach of contract, to recover damages, Breach of Obligations, Voluntary, default or mora, Kinds, mora accipiendi, compensation mora, mora solvendi, Demand, necessary to toll delay, Not necessary, when the obligation or law
expressly declares so, when from the nature or circumstance of the
obligation the delivery of the thing is the
controlling motive of the contract, when demand would be useless as when the
obligor has rendered it beyond his power to
perform, fraud or dolo, negligence or culpa, contravention of the tenor of the obligation, Involuntary, Fortuitous events, Conditions to exempt liability, The event must be, independent of the will of debtor, unforeseeable or inevitable, preventing normal compliance
of obligation by debtor, The debtor must be free from any participation
in the aggravation of the injury resulting to the
creditor, Liability even in fortuitous events, where such liability is expressly
specified by law, where such liability is declared
by stipulation of the parties, where the nature of the
obligation requires the
assumption of risk., debtor is guilty of fraud or malice, debtor is guilty of negligence, debtor is in delay when the event happened, obligations from criminal liability, there is an injury which must be substantial and
that the injury is the - result of the breach of the
obligation (CONCURRENT NEGLIGENCE), Classification of obligations, pure and conditional, pure, conditional, express, implied, possible, impossible, potestative, void if fulfilment is exclusively
dependent upon debtor, valid if fulfilment is exclusively
dependent upon creditor, casual, mixed, positive, negative, conjunctive, disjunctive, suspensive, resolutory, with a period, alternative, mancomunadas and solidarias, divisible and indivisible, with a penal clause

Sales, Articles 1458 to 1623 of the Civil Code of the Philippines, Definition, Elements, Characteristics, Kinds, Distinctions, from C to Sell, from Dation en Pago, Contract form